Monday, November 21, 2011

Future Music Industry presents Online Chat with S1. Basically, an online Worldwide Seminar for people interested in knowing more about the music biz. S1 will share lots of information and also provide Q&A at the end of the seminar. Please register today www.futuremusicindustry.com . Tickets are only $45.00 - The information that will be provided is valuable. For those that are familiar with S1 and his feedback already know that he does provide great information.

Platinum selling Hip-Hop Producer, Symbolyc One (“S1”) of Soul Kontrollaz, Inc (SKP INC) has teamed up with Solano Music Group, Inc. to host a one day Online Seminar on November 28, 2011 for producers seeking additional knowledge as to “how to become a Successful Music Producer”.

The Online Seminar with FutureMusicIndustry.com caters to up and coming Producers, Engineers and Songwriters who want to learn from a highly sought out producer. Hosted by Solano Music Group’s, Francis Yango, the web based seminars identify and discuss today's biggest industry topics, providing you with information on what is trending right now, helpful tips and tools and useful techniques and solutions that will aid aspiring talent with information as to getting to the top of today's music business.

Aspiring talent may expect to learn:

· Four keys to becoming a successful music producer· How to protect your music· Negotiating deals for your music· S1's process of creating platinum selling music

There will also be a 10 minute Q & A session with S1 where persons can ask questions following the lesson plan.

Interested parties may register at è www.futuremusicindustry.com

About S1:

To date, S1’s most known produced track is Kanye West’s, “Power” off of Kanye’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” in 2010 – a track he co-produced with Kanye. Most recently, he scored it big with the co-production creation of Beyonce’s, “Best Thing I Never Had” on her “4” album, followed by the production credit on Jay Z’s & Kanye West’s, “Watch The Throne” album with “Murder to Excellence”.

Tonight I was inspired to write a post on Music Marketing and Social Networking - What Artists Should NOT Do....A friend reached out to me with some tips and not to share his complete idea, I just want to point out things I would never suggest an artist does while trying to networking with persons on social networking sites.

Facebook

Personal Messages to friends: This is not suggested. Although your personal friends should be your biggest supporters if life were perfect, truth is, some of them have NO interest in what you are doing. It's not anything personal, it could be them not having the time to really sit back and listen to everything or just simply not interested for their own personal reasons. What then happens is, you're sending them all of these messages and they're getting alerts on FB, which some may use just to log in here and there and not how you use it, and they're annoyed by you - they consider you a pest. Stick to the Fan Page. Sending one message inviting them to join the Fan Page is okay. Be sure to never assume that they saw your status updates because again, not everyone uses FB as you do and newsfeeds are not always read. I repeat ONE MESSAGE alerting them of your Fan Page is fine. If they don't join, they just don't join. They possibly do not care to have the messages and alerts that come along with being supportive - it doesn't mean they do not care.

Daily Status updates and encourage friends to do the same - Encourage NOT harass!

Twitter

DM people - NO! This leaves for an awkward situation. You're corning and pressuring them to support. They may have possibly overlooked a tweet or two about your new project but as much as we like to think people sit on twitter all day and read EVERY tweet on their timeline, its not possible (even for the Mayor *smiles*). Contacting people and being social/casual works best. Which leads me right into the next thing on the list.....

@ People - DO NOT SPAM THE HELL OUT OF PEOPLE! Your timeline should NOT read a page full of tweets with you "mentioning" people and your link following. Starting up a conversation that leads into you sharing your music is the best option. You'll walk away from the conversation with at least "I'll check it later".

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Gearing up for the release of her highly anticipated video debut, Jive Records/D2 Music Management recording artist, K Michelle's single, "I Just Can't Do It" has secured a spot on the urban charts as the number two most added Urban Record of the week.

With continued progression of the single, D2 Music CEO, Delante Murphy, has been teasing the internet with sneak peek clips of the video, set to release soon.

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Seems like EVERYDAY I have someone hitting me up on MySpace asking me to listen to their music or wanting to add me to their friends list so they can "network". NEWSFLASH - having 50 million friends on MySpace is NOT networking & having 50 million hits on MySpace does not mean anything if no one likes your music. The hits more than likely come from someone like myself who clicks on your page post to the message out of curiosity. Yanno, the same way John McCain had over 3.5 viewers watch his speech at the RNC - no one cared for him but tuned in out of curiosity.

I am going to be calling out those people who hit me up requesting me to check them out - not to be a "hater" but to give tips & suggestion. Just call me the Jose Vilson of Urban Music. What makes me feel I am anyone of importance to put my Stephen A hat on? Actually, I am a nobody, at least that’s the title I like to have. I do however manage a Marketing Company that has a recording studio on site & work with a lot of the Artist (known & unknown). Not to mention my massive industry connection - actually, I don't look at them as "connections" but more as friends. I have never requested assistance from them but yet always worked with them - which is something Industry heads are lacking these days; people always want the hook up. I am someone they all turn to first when needing a project done, which is why I am on the level I am on, which makes me someone who is relevant to share tips with others – got it?